The final research talk of the Spring 2024 semester, on Monday 15 April, will be given by Yvonne van Baal, Terje Lohndal, David Natvig, and Mike Putnam. The title of their talk is Comparing models of the syntax-morphology interface with heritage language data. Abstract The conceptualization of features remains a central theme in generative approaches…

The next PSU Morpho-Syn Syndicate Research Group talk will be given by Dr. Florian Schäfer (HU-Berlin). The title will be Anticausatives as weak scalar expressions: evidence from French, German and English. If you wish to attend and you’re not in the mailing list, please email Mike Putnam and ask to be sent the link. Abstract…

The online talk series REFLECTIONS: FOUNDATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS OF GENERATIVE GRAMMAR will continue with Reflecting on the Generative Word by Hagit Borer (QMUL) on Saturday, April 20th How to attend: You can register here to get a Zoom link Zoom Information will be sent out the day before the talk to those registered on the…

CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Lecture Series: Lecturer: Roumyana Pancheva (UC Santa Cruz) Title: The syntax and semantics of comparison Date & time: March 26, 27, and 29 2024, 12.30–15.30 (Tue-Wed), 10.00–13.00 (Fri) Participation: free Location (in person): KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Leuven Campus, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven, room LETT 05.30 (Tue), LETT 00.18…

Heritage Language Syntax is a platform built around the Heritage Language Syntax (HLS) workshop series. It focuses on heritage and/or minority language syntax, with particular attention to language change in contact and its bearings on our knowledge and understanding of syntactic theory. We have several workshops planned, but we are also going to host methodology…

Talk: Tomorrow ​(19th March) at 12-1pm (UK time), Fabienne Martin (Utrecht University) will be giving a talk entitled,​The ‘no-agent’ scalar implicature triggered by anticausatives is stronger when the causative alternative is structurally-defined.  Abstract: Weak scalar expressions like English It is possible that P (defeasibly) implicate the negation of their stronger alternatives such as It is certain that P (Grice 1967,…

Speakers: Frances Blanchette (Penn State University) & Cynthia Lukyanenko (George Mason University) Title: What’s in a grammar? Microsyntactic variation in American English negative dependencies Date and time: Friday, 15 March at 17:00 CET (Click here to add to your Google calendar) Location: Zoom Abstract: pdf   All of the upcoming talks in the REEDStalks series are listed on the REEDS-website,…